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Killingtonzone has lots of rumors as well that K-mart is being sold but no rumors to who. I highly doubt that Peak would be able to afford Mount Snow, Attitash, AND Kton. I don't know what Powdr would do with KMart (all though they turned Boreal into an all park mountain recently, not that they would do it at K-Mart but I would expect improved parks) If you look at Peak's holdings JFBB is their largest resort (perhaps Crotched is bigger but I bet less expensive) although I am unclear about the ownership situation at JFBB - does Peak own it in full or just run the business? Based on the money Peak dumped into JFBB I would expect them to dump a bunch into Mount Snow. Also based on Peak's previous mountains - which are all in marginal temperature places (midwest and midatlantic) their focus is always on snowmaking. If the pipeline is allowed, I would think Peak would spend the money to do it where as ASC didn't have the money to do it. The biggest questions I have are 1) The lifts - I'm not sure what Peak's style is on lifts, they didn't replace any at JFBB but Mount Snow has some horrendous lift lines on the 3 main face lifts, we're talking Mountain Creek length on the weekends. I would love to see them replace the fixed grip quad with a 8 passenger gondola for the cold days. Considering they don't run the fixed grip when they put the other one on wind hold most of the time anyway, the uphill capacity would be worth it and on a cold day a gondola would be nice. 2) What are they going to do with snowmaking? Almost all of Peak's other mountains have a bunch of SMI fan guns because of their efficiency in lower temperature - but they are fixed guns. Mount Snow is a lot larger, and has a totally air/water tripod gun system as far as I can tell. I have seen few if any fan guns other than on the bunny slope and tubing park. I wonder what Peak's past relationship with SMI will end up doing to Mount Snow. Will there be fan guns lining Canyon next year? Will they open the "name this park" earlier with a bunch of fan guns on it to make a massive amount of snow? Will they pump out the snow for the superpipe in a timely manner? I think you will see snowmaking upgrades first and lift upgrades 2nd. I also think they will get some more money in the parks although the park scene is solid and entrenched (I don't think their jibs are as nice as BC IW or the Jiblab/ParkLogic ones but they've been made by the same guy for years so thats not changing, and he makes a killer pipe) I'm very intrigued to see what will happen

Compared to where? Who has a better deal than an early price and a regular price that increases every year - thats what prices do, they go up. They don't go down. So of course its more expensive than last year. And almost everywhere has an early bird price and a late price. Look at this year - I knew I wanted a pass to JFBB when I came in December, people who had faith before seeing the improvements already done got a better deal than if I had bought one mid season because they used their money to make the snow I was skiing on. The pass holders pay the bills during the off/pre season thats why they want to sell them early, so its a lower price because a season pass sale during/close to the start of the season is less valuable. I'm not seeing what you are expecting instead of this, I agree the validating tickets is lame as hell but aside from that JFBB doesn't do anything differently than other places.

A lot of injuries this year for sure

Well the bulletproof really has nothing to do with it. Kevlar is bullet proof but I can cut it with a sailing knife and it is banned from being on most racing sail boats because they used it for rope and it was too brittle in the sun. A bullet is a point load, durability has a lot to do with hardness. What we're doing is slapping an extremely light load (a few hundred pounds including acceleration spread out over the surface area of a snowboard is nothing) onto a plastic/metal box. The key factor is coefficient of kinetic friction and hardness so that the edge doesn't catch if you land a little crooked. Thats why they're making snowboards with bronze edges for jibbing - less hardness so it doesn't bite in on the way down. Thats why you can't slide an aluminum handrail. And thats why a lot of people use UHMW on the top of the boxes - it is really expensive but it has a better coefficient of friction than lexan and a higher hardness. I personally prefer the all steel tops to UHMW and steel copping - metal slides so much better.

Only superpipe south of Vermont this year (excluding west of the Mississippi)

Well I was wrong - http://www.hotel-online.com/News/PR2007_1s...b07_MtSnow.html Papa your on top of this shit that news is like 2 days old

woah are you sure about Mount Snow? When did that happen? They were/are American Ski Company as of a few weeks ago, I just used my American Ski Company employee card up there and they scanned it and it went through no problem. As for giving out the tickets - to friends not random people obviously. I also do mostly day trips - college schedule works out for that really well so the night pass doesn't do it for me.

For the record the pass also includes 2 free lift tickets for friends, and $50 on a debit card for the cafeteria. That sounds like a sweet deal to me, because it includes any pass. So lets do the math, I'm looking at an adult weekday only pass, $329 price before april 1st. Minus 40*2 for weekday tickets I'll give out to people, minus say $20 of the debit card I'll use and it will make it a round number. Thats 100 of stuff, making the price equal to $229. If the price for a ticket is 40 on M,W,F and 30 T,R because of the college discount (average weekday price $36 then because who knows which days I'll go) that is only 7 days of riding to pay off the pass (36*6.36=229). Considering I am home from Dec 15th to Feb 6th next year, I think that is an amazing deal because I'm going to ride a lot more than 7 days. I'll buy some food at the lodge instead of in town and save the money for gas - it works out for me really well and I'm very happy with the deal.

Yea doesn't matter I'm out for the season from injury I'm just keeping on eye on things to see where I should get a pass for next year and I hadn't seen pictures of the pipe at BB yet. Although right now I'm thinking about a JFBB weekday and a Blue anytime pass and Blue apparently has a very nice pipe and I've seen pictures and it looks like a very good mid sized pipe so that will cover my pipe riding. Considering my home mountain (Mountain Creek) wouldn't have a pipe even if I were riding this year, a small one is better than nothing.

I'm wondering if at this point we're getting Astroturfed on this board? What is with the influx of people who complain about people complaining?

Pipes are one of the most time consuming features to create. Not only do you have to make a lot of snow, for a good pipe the snow has to sit and drain and compact for a few days and kneaded over with a snowcat like bread the whole time. Rushing that part is what gives you the pipes with the air pockets and crackiness - which melt faster and don't hold their shape well. Then cutting it is a whole different issue. Getting a pipe straight and even is a lot harder than setting up a jib because if you screw up you have to basically start over, which usually isn't an option. Not sure what happened with Bear Creek's pipe but thats one of those things that needs to be dealt with on an annual basis, once the pipe is made it is very hard to fix without pushing out the snow and starting over.

Here are a few hints. 1) When you're trying to sound like the more mature person - being able to spell and being coherent helps. pathetic gripes of privledge[sic]? What? 2) If your tired of hearing it, and you joined 6 weeks ago, just leave. The forum won't lose a damn thing if you (at 2 posts) leave right now and never come back. No one is forcing you to come here and listen to us. 3) Obviously Bear Creek listens because there are a bunch of reps on here that talk to us. How else do you find out what is bothering your customers? Focus groups? This is a free never ending focus group for them, do you think at a focus group they tell people only to say nice things? 4) If Bear Creek where perfect they could just lay off all the management becuase there would be nothing to improve - instead we're voicing our complaints and they have things to work on. A perfect example is the tubing situation last week - it led to the hiring of a person to deal with the issues. I agree there are some childish comments, but that is the way the world works. Some people are immature, it usually has little to do with age or income. Bear Creek benefits from our complaints, and we're happy to tell them how to improve.

Yea you're allowed. Only under very specific circumstances are you prevented from taking pictures (movie theaters, concerts, etc) but there the competition is in public, thus you can take pictures of it. I'm pretty sure you could even sell them if you want.

Grand Prix got canceled - moved to Mount Bachelor I believe. Roundtop plowed theirs over last year, no longer have one.

did you try ipodresq? It is a website that fixes them. I had my Mini fixed by them a while ago and they had all the parts/will do the work for you. My headphone jack was dead like yours is and that got fixed up, then my battery died.

How big? Is it any good?

I don't think hes actually a teacher.

No way in hell JFBB will ever take the Grand Prix from MC. I'm not even going to list the reasons but lets put it this way, no way will that ever happen. As for jibs vs hits I agree more hits would be nice. As for rails vs boxes, more rails would be nice too many boxes these days it almost suprises me when I hit a rail and remember how much better they slide, boxes are so slow in comparison. BB all park, maybe, it is pretty damn close already. I'd like to see BB open all day like JF. It is keeping me from getting a season pass to JFBB next year, I want to ride park during the day not after school, and the JF park isn't enough to make me buy a pass over buying one to Blue because I will never be going at night. And weekends at BB are crowded as hell so its not the best experience.

Sidenote - I haven't seen/heard anything about BB's pipe does it even exist?

The only pants I can think of in that color are last season's T9 pants. I do believe a bunch of Burton stuff next year is that color blue. Find a manufactuer you want first and google the model name, its the fastest way. Or pick a burton pant and call some regular shops and ask, if you have a model and a size they will be able to look it up for you. Burton is carried by almost everyone.

It is a standard thread (M32 actually, metric) - but it is possible there is a burr on the screw, or there is a glob of lock tite covering up the thread. Bring it to the store and get new screws and try it - if you screw up the inserts you need to retap the board which is a bitch and kind of hit or miss.

What? Stance width doesn't automatically = blowing out your knees. I'm 5' 8" 160 and I ride 22.5" because its the most comfortable for me. My stance angles are huge because I'm naturally duck footed so it works out fine. If you want to talk about blowing out knees - the standard 18 and 3 at standard width hurts just to flex my legs in the store much less actually riding. As for telling the kid to bite a curb - what the fuck? No one in the first post does it say anything about wanting to look cool, just that it was most comfortable. I can totally see 25" working if you have you stance angles, I started the season maxed out on my Jeremy Jones 156 before pushing the back up 1 inch so I could butter better, and I'm near the low end of the height scale, so I think you guys are way off here. If you knees are bending in column without twisting, the width is fine.

I was trying the back flip barrel roll when I fucked myself up because I figured it is the closest to the kind you do on a trampoline so it would be the easiest to learn. I couldn't commit to them but I feel like if you could commit the motion isn't too difficult but if you panic halfway like I did your body opens up and that stops the rotation so tuck it good and don't open up.

I've heard so many good things about 7 springs but for the drive I can be in Vermont you know? I would like to see some pictures though I've seen pictures from years past and it looks sick. Looks like you will have the only superpipe south of Vermont this year - Mountain Creek isn't opening theirs.

Seriously I talk to a few dozen skiers/riders at work everyday I'm ever there, plus I make a point to talk to people on the lift to get feedback on what people like and don't like about their equipment and usually I start the conversation by bringing out this mountain or that mountain. 90% of people have no idea whats going on at the different mountains, or that other mountains really exist beyond the one they frequent. If you have someone from my area that has been going to Mountain Creek forever, and the pocono mountains are 10 minutes farther, that whole time period when MC was closed they didn't realize anyone else was open. I can't tell you how many people were like THANK YOU I HAD NO IDEA when I told them JFBB was open, or that Blue was open (most had never even heard of Blue) - things like that. Marketing is a huge problem for the mountains and word of mouth is the best source. Keep your pass holders happy and give them a way to bring in more people, make that good experience, and they will keep coming back.